BOCC update for March 2, 2026, Agenda for week of March 9, 2026

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Monday, March 2, 2026
County Watch was unable to take notes for the morning session. You can read the agenda and watch the AV Capture recording of the meeting. Click on Live Stream Meetings on the county's homepage: OkanoganCounty.gov You may have to expand the video to full screen to be able to read the clock.

Afternoon session
• The commissioners discuss the pros and cons of two different tax increases to put on the ballot—a additional sales tax of 0.1% to go to Public Safety, and an increase in the property tax from $0.88 to $1.15 per $1,000 of assessed value. After much discussion, they pass a motion to move forward with putting the property tax increase on the August, 2026, ballot. In the weeks to come, they’ll discuss the exact wording of the ballot measure.
• Pete Palmer, Planning Director, and the commissioners discuss a Critical Areas Ordinance grant from the state’s Department of Ecology.
• The commissioners hear a presentation from Mike Ward, of Trout Unlimited and Project Manager for the Enloe Dam Removal project, and others about the feasibility of removing the dam. Ward says it can be done without using taxpayer money or affecting the Okanogan PUD’s rate payers.
• Meeting adjourned at 4:40.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
County Watch did not cover Tuesday’s session. You can read the agenda and watch the AV Capture recording of the meeting. Click on Live Stream Meetings on the county's homepage: OkanoganCounty.gov You may have to expand the video to full screen to be able to read the clock

AGENDA for the week of March 9, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
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9:00 AM Review Commissioners Agenda and Consent Agenda
9:05 AM Discuss Individual Weekly Meetings & Schedules
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Commissioners' Staff Meeting
10:30 AM Presentation Cannabis Study Questions and Title 19-Pete Palmer
1:30 PM Executive Session RCW 42.30.110 (1)(i) Litigation
2:00 PM Continued Discussion Levy Lid Lift and Ballot Question Packet/Resolution-Prosecutor's Office
3:00 PM Discussion Opioid Remnant Defendants Settlement Notice-Esther Milner

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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9:00 AM Review Commissioners Minutes
9:05 AM Briefing Amongst Commissioners
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Update Public Defense Office-Stanley Myers
10:00 AM Bid Opening for Legal Newspaper
10:30 AM Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation - H.R. Liability Insurance
10:35 AM Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation - Fair Queen Projects
10:40 AM Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation - Jail
10:45 AM Discussion-Noxious Weed Staffing Changes-Larry Hudson
11:00 AM Bid Opening 2026 Liquid Asphalt -Public Works Stephanie Fulmer
To Follow Update Public Works-Engineer Josh Thomson
1:30 PM Board of Health-County Commissioners' Hearing Room at 123 5th Ave N, Okanogan.
1:35 PM Approve Commissioner Proceedings March 2 and 3, 2026
1:40 PM Approve Consent Agenda
1. AIA Change Order #6 - Sheriff Equipment/Coroner Storage – Halme Builders, Inc
2. ARPA Req #3 – Broadband Materials – Okanogan Co PUD
3. Bid Award – 2025 Traffic Paint Bid – Sherwin-Williams Co.
4. Certificate of Substantial Completion – Sheriff Equipment/Coroner Storage – MJ Neal Associates
5. Employment Agreement – FT HCA Grant Jail Administrative Biller – Briana Christensen
6. Special Occasion Liquor License Fairground Agri Plex 5-20-2026 4-11pm Sandra Ervin – Omak Elks
7. Supplemental Contract – 2025 Traffic Paint Bid – Sherwin-Williams Co.
1:45 PM Commissioners to set Wednesday’s Agenda

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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No Meeting Scheduled

State, Community and Other Meetings or Notices
(Meetings in this section may not be opened to the public, however a Commissioner may attend one or all of these meetings. Meetings that more than one Commissioner attend will be noted above. Location of meeting will follow meeting name.)

Monday, March 9, 2026
5:00 PM OCOG/RTPO (Okanogan Council of Governments/Regional Transportation Planning Orgnization) 303 2nd Ave S Okanogan

Thursday, March 12, 2026
1:30 PM Aging & Adult Care -270 9th St NE Ste 100, East Wenatchee - Commissioner Timm
5:00 PM Alta Vista Irrigation Meeting

UPCOMING MEETINGS
Mar 16 Presentation-Cannabis Study-Evergreen Economics, Pete Palmer
Mar 17 Bid Award Legal Newspaper
Mar 18 TRANGO MEETING - 303 2nd Ave S Ste A, Okanogan
Mar 18 Hearing Examiner Meeting
Mar 19 Reserved Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts - Commissioners Hearing Room
Mar 19 Civil Service meeting
Mar 23 Planning Commission Meeting (link on CMRS Web agenda to PC meeting info)
Mar 24 Department Head Quarterly Meeting

Note: All times are estimates to assist in scheduling and may be changed subject to the business of the day at the board's discretion. The board may add and/or delete and take any action on any item not included in the above agenda. The board may act upon any subject placed on the agenda regardless of how the matter is stated. All matters listed within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the board to read and study. The items are considered routine and will be enacted on by one motion by the commissioners with no separate discussion. If a separate discussion is desired, then that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by request. Items discussed during the Citizen Comment Period shall be limited only to issues not otherwise on the agenda or scheduled discussion topics.